so here's my wild idea. don't choose extinction savior species before it's too late. stumbling and humans to stop making excuses and start making changes. ah, ah ah, this is dw news. why, from berlin? russia warned the west to time as running out to meet its security demands. a week of high level diplomacy ends in deadlock, western powers refused to compromise on nato eastern enlargement. and the kremlin

keeps troops in place on the ukrainian border. also coming up on the crime becomes the dominant corona virus variant in germany. the public health institute says the fast spreading very it now account for almost 3 quarters of cases as new infection . numbers continue to rise. a possible turning point with those dealing with multiple sclerosis and massive study under scores evidence. it's caused by a common virus for m. s. patients that could make a world of a difference. and novak joke of edge faces deportation from australia after his visa is canceled. a 2nd time, after a days of uncertainty over the tennis players vaccination status, australia's immigration minister says he's acting in the public's entrust joke, which is lawyers are expected to appeal. ah,

i'm to me. so misconduct. good to have you with us. russia has opt the pressure on the west and a diplomatic showdown over ukraine. a weaker diplomacy between russia, the u. s, and nato has failed to achieve a breakthrough. but the kremlin says it wants a written response to its security demands that nato would see a halt to its eastward enlargement. by next week, the west ones, russia to reverse its military build up along the border with ukraine. russian snipers ready for action near the ukrainian border. just some of the military exercises being carried out by moscow, as it continues to threaten its neighbour. russian troops have been massing along the border for weeks. his tensions between the 2 nations grow. the satellite images taken at the beginning of december had already stoked fears that moscow was

planning to invade ukraine. over the last few days, there's been a flurry of diplomatic activity as the u. s. nato and the e u. each tries to avert a war. but so far it appears to have come to nothing citizen deliver. it was obvious from the beginning that the position of russia was unacceptable. it is not take a diplomacy genius to realised that russia's proposals were difficult to accept for the western world. among the kremlin says it's defending itself, and it once guarantees that nato won't expand its military alliance eastwards. but it's also warned, it won't hang around you. we have reasons to believe that our partners of understood the necessity to react quickly precisely and on paper. and they

have understood that we are not going to wait forever, but of course there are plans to drug it on and on. so she has 2 things have already been tracking on since rushes annexation of crimea in 2014 keith's army has been fighting pro kremlin separatists in eastern ukraine for those ukrainians living close to the russian border talks seem futile. so listen, i see no reason to negotiate with russia, the aggressor country, with those people who fight against us. now, i can't see anything positive in this. we needed a positive all it. as the russian build up of troops continues, it still looks like there's no real sign, a compromise can be reached. let's get more on this story. we have our

correspondence on the ground. emily, sherwin is in moscow, and marina shrubs is in breast. that's where you foreign ministers are meeting to discuss the crisis in ukraine. it's good to see you both. emily, i'd like to start with you. we heard a clip of survey love rob speaking there are pretty combat of tone. he was taking. tell us more about what the foreign minister had to say while yes, absolutely. sergei a love of took a combat of tone. and that's the tone that we've heard all week from russian officials at these various talks that took place in brussels and geneva sergey la grove. took this press conference today to repeat the fact that he blames the west thrush blames the west for these rising tensions between russia and ukraine. between russia and the west. he said that the west for the last 30 years essentially has been artificially trying to expand nato towards the east, essentially to provoke russia. and it also seemed today and in the last few days at

russia is not budging on its main demands to the u. s. and its main demands towards nato, which had already issued in written form back in december, they've been demanding that there be no more eastern expansion of nato. and they want that written down as a written guarantee. they also don't want any missiles to be stationed near russia . and today, lover was very clear that he sees the us as being the deciding party and all of this, even if the u. s. repeats that it has to talk to its data allies and to european countries. russia very much sees us as the deciding force here, and they want a written response from the us as soon as possible. so russia is not backing down despite this flurry of diplomatic activity. marina, how worried is the european union? and what did they want to do about it? and elena bab booked a german foreign minister,

arrived here at this venue this morning and told us, you know, it is not really a surprise that there are no concrete result after just one week of talks because we won't solve this problem in one week. the problems have been there for more than 2 years. the talks have been stalled with russia for more than to eat 2 or 2 years . the what do you expect? then there was also the chief diplomatic, and the top tier to diplomatic chief yourself, barella spaniard, who arrived after her and said, if russia wants to continue talking, then we are here. europe is here and we're happy to talk to russia. but also foreign ministers made it very, very clear that they won't back down on certain key pillars of european security structure, for example, the sovereignty of your grain and also of other post soviet countries. and emily, you know, despite these diplomatic discussions now no further talks are plants or what's next?

well, i think the russian side is also made it clear that for them this is really the beginning of a long process. for then, this is not just the result of the last 2 years as marina was talking about actually the result of basically tensions that russia sees as having been building for the last 30 years. and it's basically them saying, this is a moment of truth. that's what we've heard from various russian officials. it's kind of hard to know what the russian side wants at the moment. because as we've been saying, the 2 sides are in deadlock with russia, demanding guarantees of no more eastern expansion and western partners saying they want to stick to their open door policy when it comes to nato. but it is clear that by demanding these written this written response to russian guarantees, russia is kind of showing that it, it could be willing to discuss whatever the response from the west is. so i think there could be further dialogue there gala off today also said that that russia is

open for more dialogue going forward. just a quick last question to both of you before we go. poland. foreign minister says europe is closer to war now than any time in the past 30 years after both of you covering these talks in this past week. just quickly worded to look from where you are marina. let's start with you. to be honest, europe has been a bit at the sidelines this week because there that you was not really part of high level talks and usa is foreign minister ministers tried to play that down a little bit and said that the u. s. brief just and we were kind of part of the talks because some of us are as a part of, of nato. but the u. s. and is an economic power. for example, sanctions are a measure of they can take and they already took against russia, but they're not, they're not really able to to, to defend themselves. so to, to go there and act in the military way. so to be honest that you standing by and

watching, and emily, while russia made it very clear that they want to leave the military threat on the table, they're not willing to remove their troops from the border with ukraine. i think they're pushing hard, including using that military threat to essentially get some kind of a new security architecture within europe. and they very much want to be at the table when the world is discussing these new measures, including on arms control. i'm sure when in moscow, marina was in breast. thank you both. now ukraine says a number of its government websites have been targeted in a major cyber attack. and keith says, no personal data was leaked so far, there's been no claim of responsibility. ukraine's foreign ministry says it is too early to say who was behind the attacks, but says there is a long record of russian cyber sauce against ukraine in the past. or the european union has condemned as a cyber attack. let's check in on some other headlines now.

north korea says it is fired to short range ballistic missiles into the sea. it's the country's 3rd missile test this month. young gang said it was exercising legitimate self defense after the us announced it was imposing new sanctions. north korea's neighbors, including japan, have condemned the latest missiles, half britons, prince. andrew has been stripped of his title, his royal highness, along with his military affiliations. and royal patronage. is the princess facing a civil case in the us over allegations he sexually assaulted a woman when she was 17 virginia to fray, suing the prince, claiming he abused her in 2001. the british media reporting another party held at the prime minister's office while the country was under locked out. orest johnson is facing growing pressure to resign over staff events under investigation for violating pandemic rules. the latest gathering allegedly took place last april on

the eve of the funeral for prince philip, the queen's husband. germany has joined the list of countries reporting alma crohn as the dominant corona virus variant. now, accounting for more than 70 percent of all new cases. that's according to the countries disease prevention center, the robert cock institute. with such a rapid spread, a german health minister car lauterbach is urging those not yet vaccinated to get their shots quickly. germany saw a record number of new covered 19 cases on friday with more than 92000 infections. expert, same measures like masks and distance thing have helped to contain the advance of ama kron but more might be required. let's get some more perspective on the story. we can speak to toby escort. he is an epidemiologist at the charity hospital in berlin. good to have you back on the program. do you think this trend of new daily record infection rates is likely to continue in the coming days and weeks?

yes, i expect is to continue on the kronos you mentioned is very infectious and the numbers are very high right now. and i expect this number to continue to rise with incidence rates probably over a 1000 by when i ask you about the impact that that might have because we keep reading that i'm a crime is milder than a previous variance like delta for example. does that mean that the burden on hospitals in on medical workers is easing or will ease? unfortunately not so yes, only chrome has mild symptoms, but this is on average, which does not mean that people are not getting severely sick. and as many people are still not vaccinated, they're so high chance that some of them will unfortunately have to go to the hospital. and because of the higher number of cases that we see, even though it's little bit milo and maybe you're not having any symptoms, but if you will get symptoms. and so for the health care system does is still in a very alarming situation. so the aim for authorities now to try to slow this wave

down. do you think that the measures in place here in germany are sufficient to prevent this search that you're talking about and certainly good. so wearing masks, vaccination is, is key, is keeping distance is certainly key, but as far as it cannot pretty much be stopped right now, because it's so infectious. nevertheless, we should try to continue to reduce a number of contacts wearing mask whenever possible for sure indoors, and just trying to really and go through this way for to get her in a very respectful way. well, that's very cannot be stopped right now. that's pretty remarkable. to hear that, i mean, why are some of the infection numbers here in germany still lower than in other european countries? do you talk that up to and, you know, the masks and social distancing here are other measures. nothing is difficult to say. i don't think that the numbers are if you, if you're looking across several weeks, will, will not be that different than others surrounding countries from, from germany. certainly started the bits of it later. we have seen this also in the

2nd way, but i don't think there's a clear difference compared to other countries. we'll have to leave it there, toby escort epidemiologist at the chart, a hospital here in berlin. thank you very much. pleasure. thanks for having me. now to some other developments in the pandemic, hong kong, one of the world's busiest travel hobbs is banning airport transit passengers from some 150 countries. so far, no exceptions have been announced. people planning to travel to the winter olympics . the himalayan kingdom of baton has detected its 1st case of the on the crown variant at a quarantine facility for foreign tourists and norway is eating some of its restrictions imposed due to the i'm a chron variant including lifting and alcohol ban at restaurants and pups. you're watching dw, still the come on our show. no back joke of inches. australian visa is cancel for a 2nd time this time on grounds of public interest, but he hasn't been deported yet. we'll get the latest on the serbian tennis taras

saga but 1st to what might be considered a turning point in understanding the disabling disease known as multiple sclerosis . there is no vaccine and no cure, but a new study involving millions of people offers the clearest evidence yet that it is triggered by a common virus. and that could lead to new methods of treating m s. d w science reporter paper. stevens has more on a bench. diana is a mother of 2 who runs restaurant next to the shocked and they lake in berlin. she has multiple sclerosis, and it's her mother what ain't worth december 2019, when i noticed that i suddenly couldn't see any more. i was seeing double. my vision was blurry. it was especially bad when i was driving what before it was like, i was drunk on that my whole left side was paralyzed up on it on the link. i couldn't grip things. i couldn't really walk properly, was limping life. i couldn't lift my leg. i had bad skin irritations. my skin was

super sensitive even when i washed my hair. i could feel every single drop of water on my skull. b. b. i wasn't a bad ways. muscle. my coffee and cylindrical pla, beach bird, or makings even when the school after several m. r i scans and his doctor told the diagnosis. oh dear, i was definitely shocked. and i couldn't really classified at 1st because i had heard of him as before. but of course i had never really dealt with it because what causes multiple sclerosis has been a mystery to medical science. but that may be about to change. a study published in the journal science found that people with an epstein barr virus infection, that's a herpes virus with $32.00 times more likely to go on to develop her math than those without one. the study was massive. it spawn 20 years and involve more than 10000000 people. we started the last nation on chelsea yankee, the eagles. ah, that we have nothing to do with this and will follow them all or

many years. and what we found that those who do not get infected, we do not get to mexico remish, this is a critical finding back east, causing the research could lead to a vaccine against them, as there is not at the moment they could lead to new treatments to treatments at the moment aren't perfect. one of the most effective therapies involved suppressing what of person's immune system and that can leave them vulnerable to infections. but epstein bob iris provides a different target to therapeutic in the future may be possible to treat. it may seem that even more radical q or are, or an anti virus that could spell a big change in the quality of life that people like hannah results is clear cut is this are a rarity in medical science. now the focus will be on how the research is used.

the landmark ruling by a court in germany convicting a syrian officer of war crimes has put the syria war back in the spotlight. more than a decade after the fighting broke out, people are still being killed and many more suffering. the city of it near the turkish border is the only syrian city still controlled by the opposition. italy was the scene of anti government protests in 2011. that escalated into all out civil war in the country. following a shaky truce, it lib remains home to more than a 1000000 people and thousands of displaced families dependent on scan to a delivery. many children in these families are forced to scrounge for survival, which is only made worse by harsh winter conditions. reckon can hardly believe his luck. he's found an old solar heating mat in the trash and thinks he can sell it for a good price. it's hard for the 11 year old to carry it with just one arm. 3 years ago he lost his right forearm. it had to be amputated after

a bomb attack. i know people don't like me because i'm so dirty that he negotiated them. i kick corona from me, mother and i busted and whenever i had these people think i've infected them every day, thousands of children scour the dumps in it live. they are society's weakest, and there's little else for them. in this crisis written region, the whole day they rummaged through the trash, looking for shoes, jackets, electronics, copper, cabling, anything they can sell with. it's the only way they can support their families. grueling work instead of education. and while i didn't get an education and i started going to school when i was a kid for 2 months now that we haven't been given any food in the camp almost. and it lip is the last opposition stronghold in syria. islamists control the province.

despite the ceasefire, there are frequent reigns and skirmishes with the syrian army. hundreds of thousands of syrians have lost their homes in the war. they now live in 10th cities like here and murat, miss. ring in the north of england. this is where rock han lives with his family. they fled the air raids on their village near aleppo. his father was captured by syrian forces. so now we're con, has to feed his family. these chickens are all they own. kirkwood, while os, ironing money on your own, is difficult to model out that sometimes people help me carry the bags of trash. yeah. my siblings help to widens some days. we find stuff explore other days we don't. while at the bottom know what the known bob know what madam. he heads off every morning, sometimes accompanied by his sister fuschia. the garbage dump is 5 kilometers away

. when they get there, the real work begins. reckon often loses out to the other kids. they're stronger than him and let him know that at the end of the day, they take whatever they've managed to find to a scrap merchant near the dump, he drives a hard bargain and very few and much. i don't like working with trash than is what i'd much rather go to school and learn something. and then when i grow up, i could teach others that i'd like to be a teacher. well, that would be meaningful. what does that mean? so and, and so, but that will probably remain a dream for a con and thousands of other children in it. lab, tennis star, novak ciocca, which is facing deportation after the australian government canceled his visa for a 2nd time. that decision comes after days of uncertainty and controversy

surrounding the world. number one's coven 19 status, and a medical exemption he received from australian open tournament organizers. the australian immigration minister said he'd revoke the visa on grounds of public interest. joke of issue is unvaccinated is due to start as defense of his australian open title. and let's get the latest with tennis commentator, steve pierce, and melbourne. hi steve. so know that joke of it's a visa has been cancelled again and tell us more about the immigration minister's decision sooner. the immigration ministers decision which came through late afternoon on a friday afternoon in melbourne. he says that he decided on this occasion to re cancel if you like a joke, which is visa was done on health and good order grounds. which was an interesting table on the situation. especially given that the, the original reason the federal government didn't want josh, which in the country is never actually being tested. but nevertheless,

he has chosen to cancel the visa, but that doesn't in any way. mean an immediate deportation of november joker bitch . his lawyers of immediately challenge that decision and there's been a federal circuit court. 3 directions hearing this evening, which is heard to a little bit more detail on why the minister chose to, to, to re cancel that these are one of those reasons that he gave was that there was a very risk of in sizing and vaccinations, sentiment by joker, which staying in the country, it's really unclear what happens from here. but what is clear is that novak joker beach has an 8 a. m appointment with immigration officials to yet another into. okay, so you're saying it's unclear what happens from here, but could you take us perhaps through some of the possible scenarios, i mean could know that joke of which be deported. yes, he could. and he could also play in the astrology and either so it could go one or 2 different ways and the judge and in, within the federal court. this will now go to the federal court. and the judge

seems very aware that the tournament starts on monday. and although this is extremely unusual, and it seems that the court is of the understanding that they do have to man, i can quickly sign for the weekend. the got this extraordinary situation of an interview jock, which is being permitted to be at his lawyers office tomorrow, and he will do so i think until around 2 o'clock, melbourne local time. after that, it's unclear whether he would then be taken back into detention if a decision is still not been made by the federal court. so i suppose it is the obvious thing, isn't it, that this could go a number of different ways, but thus those, the particular ways it could go is joker beach could be completely clear, immediately hold that these are and then that would be at the australian open he could complete or the federal court could find very much on the government side and back up their decision to cancel his visa, in which case he would almost undoubtedly be deported tomorrow pending. when that decision comes down from the federal court. quick last question, steve, what

a stroke of it's saying about all of us. he's not made any public statement to. 3 to this point, i don't think i'd be very surprised while the court proceedings are on the way whether he chooses to make any public statement. i'm sure his legal team are advising against that. so i think anything we hear from now until the court case is done will come out through through the proceedings of the federal court, tennis commentator, steve pierce with the latest there from melbourne. thank you. thanks and ok. before we go a, we have some pictures for you of some rare snow leopards, conservation of say they were recorded as part of a year long observation project and to bat. in addition to the snow leopard cameras also confirm the presence of other endangered species alive and well in their natural mountain half. let's get a quick reminder of our top stories. russian foreign minister circ

a love rob is demanding a written response from the us and nato. to its security demands over the alliances, east word expansion. the cold comes after a week of high level diplomacy that produce no results or ease tensions over russia's presence on the border to ukraine. and germany has joined the list of countries reporting on the crime as the dominant corona virus variant. now, accounting for over 70 percent of all new cases. that's according to the countries disease prevention center there robert coffee institute coming up next are shown in good shape, looks at how best to stay healthy at home with with

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